14 Which of the following statement is correct regarding the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War in 1904? (A) The trigger was that Czarist Russia made an excuse for protecting the Chinese Eastern Railway during the Boxer Rebellion, and occupied Manchuria of China. (B) Under Britain’s mediation, Japan and Czarist Russia signed the Portsmouth Treaty in the Great Britain. (C) Japan and Czarist Russia reached a peaceful agreement in which Czarist Russia ceded the southern portion of Kamchatka Peninsula to Japan. (D) China and Japan signed the Sino-Japanese Telecom Treaty in 1905, allowing China to take back Czarist Russia’s special rights and interests in the three Northeast provinces.